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Words & Music by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1950 (#1) (Academy award winner, 1950)
(Gmaj7) C F C
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa men have named you;
C/B Am7 Am7/G Dm7 G7
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile.
Dm Dm7 G7sus4 G7
Is it only 'cause you're lonely men have blamed you
G G/A G/B G C
For the Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
C6 C C6 C F C
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
C7 F
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Fm C
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep;
G7 Gmaj7 C
They just lie there, and they die there.
C7 F Fm C
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 C
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
C6 C C6 C F C
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Li-sa,
C7 F
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Fm C
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep;
G7 Gmaj7 C
They just lie there, and they die there.
C7 F Fm C
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa,
Dm7 G7 Dm7 G7 C
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art.
Fm G7 Fm C
Mona Lisa, Mona Li-sa.